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The Right Hon.ble James Daillon Count du Lude.
The Right Hon.ble James Daillon Count du Lude. A Confessor who was try'd for high Treason for Preaching an Orthodox Sermon in ye City of London on ye 36.th Verse of the 18.th Chap. of St. Johns Gospel on ye 20.th day of August 1693. Ætat: Suæ 90. 1724.
T. Fry Pinx. P. Pelham fecit.
[n.d., c.1725.]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Collector's ink stamp on reverse. Trimmed within plate.
A portrait in oval of James Daillon (1634-1724), a Huguenot refugee. His sermon on 'My kingdom is not of this world' offended Queen Mary, leading to a trial for treason, at which he was acquitted. The engraver, Peter Pelham, emigrated to Boston in 1727, becoming America's first mezzotinter. In 1748 he married John Singleton Copley's mother. The collector's stamp is that of Reverend J. Burleigh James (Lugt 1425), whose collection was dispersed by Sothebys in 1877
CS: 25. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64849]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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